Elderly Limpopo couple hijacked at gunpoint
A couple in Mokopane was held at gunpoint during a hijacking at a local filling station.
Tensions have been high at filling stations around the country in the past few weeks following news about fuel price hikes. As if that was not enough, drivers still have to look out for criminals who would want to steal their cars at the pumps.
This is the fate that met one elderly couple who had stopped at a filling station in Mokopane. While they waited for an attendant, the couple was accosted by an armed man who demanded that the driver get out of the vehicle.
The driver apparently resists while the other passenger gets out of the car. She appears to be trying to talk to the hijacker, who ignores her and, still wielding the gun, climbs into the passenger seat so he can force the driver out of the car. The driver eventually gets out of the car and the hijacker runs around to the driver's side of the car. This gives the other passenger a few seconds to grab her most valuable possession before the hijacker zooms off in the couple's car.
The driver, who is now left with only one of his shoes on, runs out of the frame supposedly to go and ask for help.
The couple's car was later recovered at Tshamahansi Village, 30km out of Mokopane.